From the recording Fresh Blood / Old Skin
Lyrics
3) Desperado Hair - hugh campbell & m.litton
Desperado Hair, sand and flowers everywhere
I know they caught you unprepared for the evil out there
Our mother cried in grief, couldn’t comfort her or speak
Stood so far away that day as they laid you in your grave
To our mother’s eyes we were nearly twins
But that’s where all likeness ends
Like night ‘n day I’s the bad, you’s the good and made her glad
When I’s 15 and you were 10, I went to ridin’ with hardened men
One mean night I pulled my gun, shot a man ‘n had to run
Five desperate years I blazed a trail, a wanted man from busted jails
But for you the bounty hunter came
Long hair like mine that drew his aim
Desperado Hair, your guitar music filled the air
With such wild gypsy flair at the festivals and fairs
Women came to dance, some gave their heart to you
Now they stand alone ‘n stare, hold but a strand of you in hand
For the bounty man I went to seek over dead badlands ‘n mountain peaks
Across dry creek-beds ‘n cactus plains to avenge your soul and my shame
I left him skinned beneath the vulture sky
Watched him bleed and watched him die
Then rode away ‘neath the sharp cold moon
While our mother prayed in her candled room
Desperado Hair, sand and flowers everywhere
I know they caught you unprepared for the evil out there...